Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-04-22
PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.
MORTIMER WHITEHEAD.

d. Wyatt Aiken, Of South Carolina, is
dead. Five times elected to Con-
gross. He was one of the fore
most scientific farmers of his State, and
was probably better known in South
Carolina as an advanced agriculturist
than as politician" Whet higher
words OF praise could he given the man
and Patron, who ever placed agricul-
ture In the front. From the very earli-
est years Of the Grange he was one OF
It's hardest workers and ablest advocates
because it was designed to bring farm
ers to the front. He, above and beyond
all others, did bring agriculture to the
front advocating the cause of those who
had few friends to speak for them. Not
i'm South Carolina alone was he "better
known as an advanced agriculturist
than as = politician" Not State in
all our Union but recognized his adj
vanced position. and hundreds Of thou
sands sincerely mourn his departure.
He should have monument i'm Wash.
ington as the typical advanced" farm
er Congressman.
"God buries his workmen, but the
work goes on" The work so ably as
sisted by d. Wyatt Aiken still goes for
ward. Let few Of his earnest words
still continue their mission of good:
"Is 1t presumption to suggest that
the world has never seen a better edu-
Gator than the Grange? 1t takes care of
its own, anG makes them better men
and better women and wiser men and
wiser women.
"Thus it will he seen that the Grange
is family where the fathers manhood,
the mothers devotion, the brothers af-
lection and the sisters love are so Guilt
waited and developed that they reach out
beyond the purview OF the family circle
and embrace with fraternal kindness
every member Of the Order, practically
obeying the injunction of our Savior
when he said, 'The second caminand-
ment is like unto il: Thou shalt low"
thy neigh5Or as myself This is the
fellowship 10 be found in the Grange,
and it Is The fellowship of the mobiles
character. Twenty-nine days in the
month social differences, moral eonvic-
tons or political preju Ices my eS-
range Patrons Of Husbandry; but when
on the thirtieth day of the month they
meet on a common level in the Grange
all these alternating features are iissipa-
ted.
SIS il any wonder, then, that farmers
are attracted to the Order? Nay, verify.
the greater wonder is that every farmer
in the Union is not an active co-laborer
with those of us who are DESTROYS to so
impress the advantages of the Grange
upon the agricultural mind Of the coun-
try that it, as an organization, may
never be defaced by neglect. injured by
prejudice nor destroyed by ignorance,
but may 60 on prospecting and to pros
per until it shall merit the fulfillment
of it's own selected motto, 'Esto Perpet-
ua.'"
The keenest shafts of criticism failed
20 fell or the boldest stroke of policy to
weaken this new tree organization;
even its rootlcts sprang into life in the
midst of the turbulent, surging waters
of the nineteenth century, and a. time,
too, when from out her ripening years
that stern fiat, "Nothing new under the
sum-" had gone forth to questioning,
doubling people. Those same little
roots have spread outward and upward,
been transplanted into hills and valleys,
and made to dot our land with Grange
growth that is healthy and fragrant
with good works.-Mrs. NJ. B. Lander.
"This people will never submit to
being enslavel by small minority,
whose only claim to authority is power
obtained by bribery and ill-gotten
wealth, but as the laws now are, such is
the tendency. A few men WELD, aye,
use power that would put to the blush
the potentates of Europe, and unless a
change is made anarchy and ruin will
be the result, and future generations
may view the ruins of this civilization,
even as we view the ruins Of the mound
builders. This is no time for child's
play. If we are worthy of this grand
heritage to which We have fallen heirs,
we ought to have maniness enough to
perpetuate and hand it down uniln-
paired to our descendants" A. Gil
Ter.
In this organization of the farmers
rest the hopes of all true friends of good
government, Of republican institutions,
of the true philanthropist and the hon.
est American statesman.
A Chicago dealer put quart Of water
into a gallon of milk, and sold it for five
quarts Of milk. He was arrested and
fined $40.
A jeweler alloyed his gold one-half,
then sold his goods for pure, aud was
sent to prison.
Highland Grange. 29l. Kansas, one
month ago was dormant. Reorganizet,
81 new members and other applications.
This Greuge renews its allegiance 10
the National AID Sac organization With
higher conceptions OF duty and privi-
leges in this country, and recharters for
rinety-nine years or during the necessi-